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There was a tendency to look for systemic issues about the flu, both its causes and its treatment, which was particularly evident in two of the pieces the paper produced. One connected the flu to the North American Free Trade Agreement. The other revisited lessons Toronto learned from the SARS outbreak of 2003. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The NAFTA-related piece from May 1 began, \u201cSewage-filled lagoons at a pig farm in eastern Mexico- a product of the North American free trade deal- are suspected of creating ground zero conditions for swine flu in this country.\u201d The article continued, \u201cEnvironmentalists argue lax regulations in the factory farming that boomed in Mexico right after the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and the U.S. are making people sick\u2014and not just with swine flu \u2026 You might call this the \u2018NAFTA flu,\u2019\u201d said Rick Arnold, coordinator of Common Frontiers, a Canadian coalition focusing on Latin America and issues of economic integration. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second article praised Ontario for learning lessons from the SARS crisis in 2003. \u201cBack when SARS hit, the province was an underfunded public health wasteland,\u201d the article stated. \u201cThere was no overarching plan if a global infectious disease were to suddenly appear, no public health agency, and one microbiologist running a lab meant to test samples for millions of people.\u201d Now, the report continued, \u201cOntario experts feel ready.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Star also associated the flu with Mexicans in some of its headlines. 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